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Eating Sanitizer? Yuk! But, Some Hoosier Kids Have Been Doing It
STATE WIDE–Nearly 500 children ate hand sanitizer and had to be treated or their parents advised by the Indiana Poison Center at IU Health in 2020.
This may go in the “believe it or not” category, because sanitizer tastes awful and is basically all alcohol. Dr. Blake Froberg, a toxicologist at Riley Children’s Health, says that’s why most kids who would try it just spit it out.
LISTEN: Dr. Froberg talks about kids eating sanitizer.
He said the appeal is generally not the taste.
“You have some of these products that are colored certain ways or have popular cartoon or superhero characters that may make a young child think that there’s something good to get into in those bottles,” he said, adding that because of the pandemic, more sanitizer is available and in homes.